Big news from the Amiga world this weekend. That stubborn bunch are holding AmiWest 2011 this weekend, and it's been one heck of an eventful little, uh, event. Not only will the AmigaOne X1000 start shipping by year's end, Hyperion also announced something many in the Amiga world have been waiting for for a long time: an Amiga laptop. Update: Steven Solie, AmigaOS' team lead, also held a presentation about the past, present, and future of AmigaOS. The team is working on some pretty interesting stuff - protected address space, multicore support, USB3, new printing subsystem, and much more.

The expensive part is where the hardware is manufactured in really small volumes because it's a niche product. Not a terribly big deal, as the current and potential market for AmigaOS compatible hardware isn't particularly price sensitive these days - people who want something cheap have either left or gone for AROS or MorphOS.